Tragedy Quotes

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.

It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

My positions on gun safety have remained consistent over the years, and have been on my website for years. Whether I'm in a tough re-election race, an easy re-election race, or if it isn't an election year, whether there's a high-profile tragedy in the news or otherwise, my position remains unchanged and on my website.

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come.

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?